Susannah York

Born Susannah Yolande Fletcher in Chelsea, London on Jan. 9, 1939, she was the youngest daughter of merchant banker Simon Fletcher and his wife, Joan Bowring. Her relationship with her father largely ended at the age of five, when her parents divorced and she moved to Scotland to live with her mother's second husband, businessman Adam Hamilton. There, she attended Marr College and St. Cuthmans, where she gained her first acting experience in school plays. York fell in love with the craft and considered applying to the Glasgow College of Dramatic Art, but after her mother's separation from Hamilton and relocation to London, York applied to and was accepted at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art... Continue Bio >>